Episode 3: Bret Hart in WCW
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff, Eric and Conrad run through the incredible true story of bringing Bret "The Hitman" Hart to the WCW during the peak of the Monday Night Wars.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has not been sanctioned the battleground |
| 0:04.5 | This Monday nights 80 for a campaign of 83 consecutive weeks |
| 0:09.6 | Three there was a clear winner. This is story or weeks. This is the story of that campaign 83 weeks 20 years later |
| 0:17.0 | The time has come to the whole true for the whole true. This is 83 weeks with Eric |
| 0:24.4 | Thompson |
| 0:27.3 | Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to 83 weeks with Eric this shelf and Eric |
| 0:33.6 | We are having some fun here. Are we not? |
| 0:36.5 | We're having fun. We're having a blast and I want to thank everybody that said download of this drop-down |
| 0:41.8 | Made comments on Twitter and all of the above. It's it's really fun. Thank you |
| 0:46.6 | Well, I'm excited to cover this band because this is one of the more controversial topics |
| 0:52.0 | It's all about Bret Hart and WCW |
| 0:55.6 | Unfortunately, Eric was not there for all of Bret Hart's run. We're gonna lift to |
| 1:01.0 | Tell that story another day, but we are going to start from the beginning. I'm ready to dig in. Are you ready Eric? |
| 1:07.5 | Oh, I'm stretched out. I got my mouthpiece in. I got my nut cup on. I'm ready to go. Let's fight this out |
| 1:13.1 | Let's do it. Bret Hart made his official WCW debut on Nitro on December 15th |
| 1:19.4 | 1997, but it was quite the road to get him here. So let's start at the beginning |
| 1:24.2 | The July 1st 96 observer reported that you, Holland Nash were all talking about who the third band could be and |
| 1:31.2 | Everyone agreed that Bret Hart would probably be the best candidate and WCW floated the idea that it would be Hart on the hotline over the weekend and |
| 1:41.3 | Hard eventually turns down every offer thrown his way now |
| 1:45.4 | This is directly from the observer and this of course happens when Bret was off of WFTV |
| 1:51.5 | So set the record straight here was this ever seriously considered was it ever anything more than just a what if from Scott and Kevin? |
| 1:59.2 | It was not even that I |
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